Information on the asian tsunami 2004

10 Facts about Asian Tsunami Fact File

On December 26, 2004, at 7: 59 am local time, an undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 9. 1 struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Over the next seven hours, a tsunami a series of immense ocean wavestriggered by the quake reached out across the Indian Ocean, devastating coastal areas as far away as East Africa.

Facts and Figures: Asian Tsunami Disaster New Scientist

A tsunami is a series of waves the first wave may not be the most dangerous. A tsunami wave train may come in surges five minutes to an hour apart. The cycle is marked by the repeated retreat and advance of the ocean.